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Ideas for Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud and Jonathan Dancy

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11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 1. Certainty

2745	A pupil who lacks confidence may clearly know something but not be certain of it [Dancy,J]
	Full Idea: Why isn't certainty required for knowledge? Because we are often prepared to allow that someone does in fact have knowledge when the person is so uncertain they would not claim knowledge for themselves (the 'diffident schoolboy').
	From: Jonathan Dancy (Intro to Contemporary Epistemology [1985], 2.1)

11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 3. Fallibilism

2755	If senses are fallible, then being open to correction is an epistemological virtue [Dancy,J]
	Full Idea: In my view, once we admit that our beliefs about our sensory states are not infallible, incorrigibility would be a vice rather than a virtue.
	From: Jonathan Dancy (Intro to Contemporary Epistemology [1985], 4.3)
	A reaction: This seems to be axiomatic among modern philosophers, and I certainly agree with it.